Comment 91 for bug 228302

Igor,
I thought the only pata_ali changes were made by Andy, that's why I
thought it could be the reason. Seriously I don't know if bug #591532
could be a symptom of bug #585765 because I've just tried the LiveCD
for short sessions. I won't upgrade to Lucid until I know the source
of those errors and discover a workaround, I would really appreciate
if you could have a look into that.
As regards this bug, I'm really happy I can now easily load/unload
pata_ali as a module on Lucid thanks to Andy's efforts, but since I'm
stuck with a disappoining A8R-MVP (which doesn't even let me have a
working 64bit os with hardware memory hole, by the way) with a buggy
chipset, ata_generic is not helping that much...
Thank you and best regards,

Montblanc

2010/6/10 Igor Wojnicki <email address hidden>:
> Montblanc,
>
> The changes Andy committed regard modularization of pata_ali - nothing
> more. As I underestand correctly you use pata_ali right? And if it
> reports the errors you mention in bug #591532 , than it seems to be
> pata_ali issues and I believe they have not much to do with making
> pata_ali a module - the modulatization should not cause them.
>
> As far as I know ata_generic is reported to poorly perform on some
> hardware, which confirms your performance issues with ata_generic
> enabled.
>
> I'd gladly investigate these errors of yours - perhaps they'd appear in
> my system too but unfortunatelly I'm too scared to switch to Lucid right
> now because of bug  #585765 which affects at least one of my systems.
> Until it is solved I'm not even touching Lucid.
>
> --
> [HARDY-LUCID] No DMA nor 32bits IO support
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228302
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